Vehicle-wheel.



PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

T. L. SOURS & h. E. FOX.

VEHICLE WHEEL. APPLICATION rum) 11110.27, 1904.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed December 27, 1904. Serial No. 238.458.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'we, THOMAS L. Souns'and HOMER F. Fox,'citizens of the United States,

residing at Luray, in the county of Page and State ofVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to vehicle-wheels, and

as spring-wheels. 1 The object of our invention is to provide a wheel wherein the hub is supported by the elongating strain of the spoke, in which is interposed an incased spring. r

A further object of our invention is to provide a vehicle-wheel wherein the hub is supported by the elongating strain of the spoke and wherein a spring isinterposedin such manner that the'elongation of the spoke produces a compression of the spring, It is well known that in all mechanical constructions where the action of a spring-is required and wherein it is convenient to place a coil-spring it is always considered highly especially to that class of vehicle-wheels known desirable to so dispose the spring that the pressure exerted will produce a compression of the coils, for the reason that a more equal.

that the elongation of the spoke produces a compression rather than an elongation of the spring.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combinationand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings,,and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being under- .2 is a vertical sectional view in detail of our improved spring for a'vehicle-wheel, taken on a line parallel with the-axis of the hub. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view in detail, taken at right angles to the view shown at Fig. 2 and on a line transverse to the axis of the hub. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View in taken on line 4 i of Fig. 3.

Like characters of reference designate cordetail,

responding parts throughout the several I views.

In its preferred embodiment our improved Vehicle-wheel consists of a hub 1 of any ap proved construction forming a center for and encircled by-therim 2. The huh I is supported [by the spokes 3 from the uppermost point of the rim 2 and by an elongating strain upon the. said spoke. A casing i, provided with afollower 5 and inclosing a spring 6, is

interposed in said'spoke 3 by means of a staple 7 secured to the hub and passing slidably through the follower 5. The staple 7 also passes longitudinally throughout the casing 4: and is rigidly secured to the upper end of the said casing. A secondstaple 7 passes slidably.

through the upper end of the casing 4 and longitudinally through the length of the said casing and is rigidly secured to the follower 5.

The spoke 3 is connected with the staple 7 in the spoke, and a pressure upon the hub 1 causes the staple? to draw the follower 5 within the casingi and against the tension of the spring weclaim as novel, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a vehicle-wheela spoke provided with a spring interposed therein,..a casing disposed about the said spring, said casing having a solid end provided with a plurality of openings-therein, a follower disposed within the casing and provided with a plurality of openings, a staple slidably mountedwithin'a pairof openings inthe end of the casing and rigidly secured to 'the follower and a second sta- In testimony whereof we afiix' oursi 'natures ple, secured at an approximate right angle to in presence of two witnesses.

the first-mentioned staple. slidably mounted THOMAS L. SOURS. within a pair of openings in the follower and HOMER F. FOX. rigidly secured to the end of the casing, said Witnesses:

staples and spring constituting a portion of the W. O. LAUCK,

said spoke. ELMER W. RICE. 

